On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 19:36 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
One option is tmpfs. Put something like this in /etc/fstab:
none /tmp tmpfs nodev,noexec 0 0
and everything in /tmp will be deleted whenever the system is rebooted
or powered down (unless you hibernate).
If you have plenty of memory, files in /tmp might never actually reach
disk, which can improve performance on some tasks.
But bear in mind that if you don't have plenty of memory, and you need
to create large temporary files, you can have a problem.
e.g. Burning discs that need to create the entire iso image file in
the /tmp space.
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